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I'm trying to find the SSL .crt file that was installed on my Ubuntu server using Let's Encrypt. I used this commands below for installing Let's Encrypt free SSL:

$sudo apt-get update 
$sudo apt-get install python-letsencrypt-apache
$sudo letsencrypt --apache -d example.com
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  • Sorry but you will need to edit your question and include more information. You will need to tell us how it was originally installed and what operating system you use. CRT files locations vary from depending on the Linux or Windows version being used, furthermore cPanel and Plesk also have their own file paths that differ too, more information needed before people can help you.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Mar 25, 2017 at 18:48
  • @SimonHayter I followed this digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/…
    – Bangladesh 71
    Commented Mar 25, 2017 at 18:59
  • No links please, edit your question and include that information... people should be able to answer your question without having to click external sites. But to add we don't need the full tutorial. Just simplify the process you did a in a few paragraphs, from that we can answer your question. For example, I installed the Let's Encrypt using sudo letsencrypt --apache -d example.com where does it store the SSL cert?
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Mar 25, 2017 at 19:00

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After successfully running Lets Encrypt for example.com, the latest certificate files can be found in the following location:

/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem
/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/chain.pem
/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/cert.pem
  • cert.pem: The private certificate for your domain
  • chain.pem: The Let's Encrypt "chain" certificate that needs to be installed with the private domain certificate
  • fullchain.pem: cert.pem and chain.pem concatenated
  • privkey.pem: The private key for cert.pem
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ubuntu: 
/etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/cert.pem (Certificate)
/etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem (Private Key)

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You are looking for file like cert.crt, actually letsencrypt uses cert.pem for your certificate and privkey.pem for private key. So they always use .pem extension which can be confusing.

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I don't know that the file for which you are looking will be there, but Let's Encrypt puts files in /etc/letsencrypt/. If you have the mlocate package installed, then you can use locate .crt to find all .crt files on the system. If you don't, you can run find / -name *.crt from the root account, though locating all files with the find command will be slower than with the locate command, though the locate command won't find the file if the database it uses hasn't been updated by updatedb since the relevant file was placed on the system; the updatedb command is usually run once daily by cron.

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    Let's encrypt will use .pem file extensions rather than .crt on Ubuntu for Apache.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Commented Mar 26, 2017 at 9:39

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